He would have been taken for a pirate in any part of the world.

While I gazed upon his threatening aspect I forgot the storm, and wondered if he had come to cut my throat.

This he seemed to divine.

"Senor," said he, doffing his cap, "I have come to do you no harm." And a smile, the faintest in the world, but still a smile, played on his face, which seemed not unkind when he spoke.

"I have come to do you no harm.